(Closed) What do you guys do to motivate yourself to clean?

I stayed home from work today due to a stomach flu (boo!) and thought I’d use the unexpected time at home while FH is at work to do some cleaning. Problem is, I have no motivation! I’ve been sitting on my butt all day watching SYTTD instead of cleaning, haha. What are some things you guys do to make cleaning less of a chore? 🙂

@acciotoni: You’re home sick so rest!!! Don’t feel guilty about not cleaning.

I hate chores. I basically just schedule them and get them over with. For example, we do most of the cleaning on Sunday. I know as soon as I finish the cleaning I can shower and get on w. the rest of the day.

As far as laundry goes, my guy really cracks the whip on that one lol so I don’t need motivation.. he usually at least starts it, and I’ll help hang the clothes up at least. We don’t use the dryer for regular clothes (just towels and sheets and stuff) because it tends to wreck them.

@harleyq: LOL, I wouldn’t have to look far for that! My living room is a nightmare, oy!!

@thepines: I used to watch Hoarders while cleaning before I moved in with FH, but now I’ve seen all the episodes so the omg-my-house-could-look-like-THAT! motivation has waned haha.

I guess I’ll just have to pump some music and get to it, then! My FH always frowns upon us playing loud music (we live right on a lake so the music always ends up travelling and annoying our neighbors haha) but I think I’ll indulge myself today.

“Cleaning WINE” best motivational tool ever! You don’t really need to be that detail oriented when cleaning your own place, hence drinking while cleaning totally works for me. I mean does a toilet need to be spotless, no!

It also helped alot before moving because I was better able to purge sentimental (but otherwise not useful) items more easily.